A North Yorkshire school needs to do more to tackle the behaviour of disruptive pupils, according to Government inspectors.

Stokesley School was classed as satisfactory and improving in its latest Ofsted report but inspectors raised concerns about the behaviour of a small number of disruptive pupils.

The report said behaviour is satisfactory overall but a few are a disruptive influence.

It added: "The school has recently improved how it deals with incidents of poor behaviour but these are not sufficiently effective."

Inspectors said overall improvement at the school had accelerated recently and there was a sharp rise in standards last year as a result of better teaching and an improved curriculum.

But the report said "not enough lessons were good or better."

Standards achieved by students were above average and the school had exceeded its targets for the number of pupils expected to achieve 5 A* to Cs, including English and maths and a strong leadership has been built at the school.

The school's sixth form was described as successful where achievement is good and inspectors noted 50% of students gained A or B in their A-levels last year.

Norman Corner, headteacher, said the school had experienced an increase in the number of students who required careful behaviour management which it was providing for them.

He added: "I feel in some areas they didn't notice some of our recent progress which is inevitable given the relatively small number of inspector days - therefore we are seeing some progress in some areas which the inspectors failed to see sufficient evidence for."